Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

[Mara]

There is no such thing as "too early" to talk about this.

http://www.avclub.com/articles/joss-whedon-confirmed-to-write-and-direct-avengers,83515/


not only has Whedon signed on to write and direct the follow-up—which is presumably due sometime in 2015—he's also digging himself even deeper into both Marvel and other people's intellectual property, signing on to develop a live-action TV series set within the Marvel universe for ABC. Though concrete details on that last project are still scarce, previous reports on its early stages said that numerous ideas were being considered, including turning it something along the lines of a "high-concept cop show."

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118057576.html?cmpid=RSS

[Lucky]

Sarah Michelle Gellar as Ms. Marvel, what?

[Ivan Drago]

At first I thought I'd lose interest in TV after the end of my current favorite shows. Now with this news, I'm more excited than ever.

Also, they're rebooting the Incredible Hulk series???? WITH GUILLERMO DEL TORO???? WIN!

[number8]

It's SHIELD.

Pilot will be co-written by Joss, Jed and Maurissa Tancharoen. Joss might direct pilot, but that's not confirmed.

[number8]

I can't imagine Sam Jackson joining a network TV show, and Smulders is still committed to How I Met Your Mother, so I assume this is going to be a hilarious thing where the agents never get to see their bosses.

[Watashi]

I really don't see what they can do with this show since The Avengers will likely be talked about but never seen.

[Ezee E]

Will it be like Charlie's Angels and we just hear Nick Fury through voice messages?

[number8]

I have an idea, and I'll be amazed if they can pull this of, but if anyone can do it, it's Marvel:

Have the season-long running storyline be focused on the TV characters' drama, but break down a season into groups of episodes (arcs) that will will deal with the behind the scenes lead-up and aftermath of the Marvel movies coming out. Like, say, have 3-4 episodes of SHIELD agents investigating murders that set up the Winter Soldier. Next set of episodes, have them team up with Thor's Warriors Three to investigate The Dark World, etc etc.

[Sven]

Have the season-long running storyline be focused on the TV characters' drama, but break down a season into groups of episodes (arcs) that will will deal with the behind the scenes lead-up and aftermath of the Marvel movies coming out. Like, say, have 3-4 episodes of SHIELD agents investigating murders that set up the Winter Soldier. Next set of episodes, have them team up with Thor's Warriors Three to investigate The Dark World, etc etc.

This is a good idea.

All in all, though, I'm only skeptical of all this noise.

[number8]

I think it's more likely that instead of having the movie stars show up on the TV show, they'll have the TV characters show up in the movies, as Coulson's replacements.

[Henry Gale]

(Item 47 spoilers)

If Lizzy Caplan wasn't already caught up in that new Masters of Sex show on Showtime, it would be cool if her and Jesse Bradford were used as the main characters for this considering where the short leaves off.
But brand new S.H.I.E.L.D. agents are probably the only way to go here, with enough leeway in the storylines so that they can tell unique stories on their own while still being able crossing into the bigger superheroes' whereabouts now and then.

Depending on when this actually ends up airing, they could probably only get Cobie Smulders to pop in now and then, though How I Met Your Mother is supposed to end in two years. Also, I'd expect a lot of Agent Coulson flashbacks. And the more successful the show is, the more likely they can lure the likes of a Hemsworth, Evans, Hiddelston or find ways of setting up villains for future films, even if they don't actually appear.

[number8]

Clark Gregg can still be on the cast, playing a Coulson LMD.

[number8]

Whedon says he's not going to be the showrunner. It's going to be Jed and Maurissa. I still expect him to write an episode or two, though.

[Mara]

Jed and Maurissa did really great work on Dollhouse. I'm not disappointed.

[[ETM]]

They're awesome people. Well worth following them on social media. And I happen to dig their musical efforts, too.

[Morris Schæffer]

supposedly, these are some of the main characters:


Skye: This late-20s woman sounds like a dream: fun, smart, caring and confident – with an ability to get the upper hand by using her wit and charm.
Agent Grant Ward: Quite the physical specimen and “cool under fire,” he sometimes botches interpersonal relations. He’s a quiet one with a bit of a temper, but he’s the kind of guy that grows on you.
Agent Althea Rice: Also known as “The Calvary,” this hard-core soldier has crazy skills when it comes to weapons and being a pilot. But her experiences have left her very quiet and a little damaged.
Agent Leo Fitz and Agent Jemma Simmons: These two came through training together and still choose to spend most of their time in each other’s company. Their sibling-like relationship is reinforced by their shared nerd tendencies – she deals with biology and chemistry, he’s a whiz at the technical side of weaponry.

[EvilShoe]

Hopefully Titus Welliver is part of this...

[number8]

Hopefully Lizzy Caplan is part of this...

[EvilShoe]

Hopefully Lizzy Caplan is part of this...
She's got her own show, so it's not going to happen. It's called Masters of Sex, but unfortunately it's not a Red Shoe Diaries copy.

[number8]

Clark Gregg just announced at NYCC that he's on the show as Coulson.

Back to life, or flashbacks? Hmm.

[Mara]

Whedon continues to move away from whitest-shows-ever to cast Ming-Na Wen, who apparently was Mulan. She is very pretty.

http://www.avclub.com/articles/joss-whedons-shield-casts-first-actress-challenges,87924/

[Dead & Messed Up]

Whedon continues to move away from whitest-shows-ever to cast Ming-Na Wen, who apparently was Mulan. She is very pretty.

http://www.avclub.com/articles/joss-whedons-shield-casts-first-actress-challenges,87924/

Today was a day that changed Ming-Na's life forever.

For Whedon, it was Thursday.

[number8]

http://instagram.com/p/Vnp8kKKhMw/

[number8]

“I’m excited about the show because it’s a very hopeful show,” Whedon told TVLine Sunday at the 2013 Streamy Awards (http://www.streamys.org/live/), where he was nominated for best guest appearance (in Husbands (http://husbandstheseries.com/)). “It’s not about murder, and it’s not about crime, and it’s not people looking into their own belly buttons. It’s about people who are trying to help each other, and that’s one of the things I loved about comic books. They had costumes and the villains were cool [but] they stood for something, and I like doing a show that does that.”


That said, Whedon says to expect “not a ton” of familiar faces from the Marvel-verse, though “there’s a little bit of talk of that” for any possible future the project has in primetime. “Right now, I want to involve people in the characters that we’ve created for the show,” Whedon said, “and then we’ll worry about [the other stuff].”


Last month, there was talk that Cobie Smulders (http://tvline.com/2013/01/28/shield-pilot-cobie-smulders-as-maria-hill/) might sneak away from How I Met Your Mother to at least cameo as Maria Hill, the S.H.I.E.L.D. agent she played in Whedon’s The Avengers. In actuality, Whedon cautions that Smulders’ schedule “will permit very little” involvement, “but if we can get a hold of her anytime, we will.”

http://tvline.com/2013/02/18/shield-tv-series-spoilers-joss-whedon-maria-hill/

[Dukefrukem]

I can't believe how much hotter Cobie Smulders is in The Avengers compared to How I met Your Mother. It's almost spooky.

[[ETM]]

Whoever worked on her appearance as Maria Hill, did their job perfectly. She's absolutely stunning in the film.

[Morris Schæffer]

I can't believe how much hotter Cobie Smulders is in The Avengers compared to How I met Your Mother. It's almost spooky.

She's smuldering!

[number8]

J. August Richards joins the show.

That's cool. He hasn't really done anything substantial since Angel.

[Mara]

J. August Richards joins the show.

That's cool. He hasn't really done anything substantial since Angel.

He was not my favorite on Angel. But that could very well be his characterization, which was pretty much, "He's black!"

[Dukefrukem]

Every time I see this thread on the homepage I think (http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune.c om/photos/uncategorized/2007/04/02/shield.jpg).

[slqrick]

Every time I see this thread on the homepage I think (http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune.c om/photos/uncategorized/2007/04/02/shield.jpg).

I don't. Especially now, since I think Goggins has outdone himself both as Boyd on Justified, andVenus Van Dam (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OK97LaPDbJo).

I really hope this show succeeds. Maybe they can follow up with a Daredevil procedural.

[number8]

New title.


"Joss Whedon (MARVEL’S THE AVENGERS, Buffy the Vampire Slayer) shows us not all heroes are super with MARVEL’S AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D.

Fresh from his role in the summer’s box office smash, MARVEL’S THE AVENGERS, Agent Phil Coulson (Clark Gregg) returns to the worldwide law enforcement organization S.H.I.E.L.D. He puts together a small, highly trained, team of Agents to tackle the cases that haven’t been classified yet, the new, the strange and the unknown. That team consists of straight arrow Agent Grant Ward (Brett Dalton), an expert in combat and espionage; pilot and martial artist Agent Melinda May (Ming-Na Wen); and brilliant if socially awkward scientists Agent Leo Fitz (Iain De Caestecker) and Agent Jemma Simmons (Elizabeth Henstridge). They’ll be joined by civilian new recruit and computer hacker Skye (Chloe Bennet).

"Prepare for an epic adventure that showcases the hope and wonder of the human spirit. This is a world of Super Heroes, aliens and the unusual – of action, spectacle and world spanning stories. The show will speak to the human condition through the lens of our very human, non-powered S.H.I.E.L.D agents – that together we are greater than we are apart, and that we can make a difference in the world.

"Executive Produced and co-written by Joss Whedon, Jed Whedon & Maurissa Tancharoen (Dollhouse, Dr.Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog), Jeffrey Bell (Angel, Alias) and Jeph Loeb (Smallville, Lost, Heroes) comes Marvel’s first live-action TV series, MARVEL’S AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D."

[Mara]

That's a dumb name. That's a name created by a committee.

[Acapelli]

i mean, it is sort of the name of a nick fury comic

http://img542.imageshack.us/img542/6996/nickfuryagentofshieldvo.jpg

http://img809.imageshack.us/img809/8430/nickfuryagentofshield.jpg

http://img526.imageshack.us/img526/6996/nickfuryagentofshieldvo.jpg

[number8]

A comic from the 60s, when acronyms were the hippest thing.

It's a pretty dumb name.

[EyesWideOpen]

I think it's a great name especially since they almost certainly were mandated to get Marvel in there somewhere.

[Ezee E]

How about SHIELD with Marvel presents... typed in very small? Everyone's gonna know it's by Marvel anyway, considering the beginning of each commercial will have the Marvel logo right on it.

[DavidSeven]

Feel like they made a kind of silly, kid-ish title even sillier and more kid-ish. I think it's pretty lame.

But whatevs. This is from the man who garnered acclaim for a show titled BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER.

[number8]

But whatevs. This is from the man who garnered acclaim for a show titled BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER.

Good point.

[Mara]

Whedon Presents: Buffy the Vampire Slayer and her Scoobie Friends Too!

[Winston*]

Whedon Presents: Buffy the Vampire Slayer and her Scoobie Friends Too!

http://img1.rnkr-static.com/user_node_img/50015/1000299720/full/the-mattel-and-mars-bar-quick-energy-chocobot-hour-photo-u1.jpg

[number8]

Here, see if you can read between the lines. Is he gonna be a robot or what?


http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded& v=2rmuz4JaoPI

[number8]

http://www.indiewire.com/static/dims4/INDIEWIRE/db58971/2147483647/thumbnail/680x478/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fd1oi7t5trwfj 5d.cloudfront.net%2Fe6%2F01%2F 826e5d0b416fb5c856840bdb6d3f%2 Fagents-of-shield.jpg

[number8]

Teaser apparently will air this Sunday during the Once Upon a Time finale.

[slqrick]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=pFZE3W1SF_Q

am excite.

[Mara]

More.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yg_jaOPV_E&feature=player_embedded

[Mara]

By the way, even though he didn't have large parts in either series, to me Clark Gregg is totally still identified as:

*Agent Casper in The West Wing, and

*The "Where are we going?" guy from Sports Night.

Both of which I found oddly attractive.

[slqrick]

Awesome. I think Richards is gonna play Luke Cage (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luke_Cage), which could be cool. Unless he's a completely new superhero.

[number8]

Um... To me Clark Gregg is the guy on The Shield who rapes elderly women and cuddles with them afterwards.

[Winston*]

Both of which I found oddly attractive.
They were played by the same man fyi.

[Mara]

They were played by the same man fyi.

Yeah... Clark Gregg.

[Mara]

Um... To me Clark Gregg is the guy on The Shield who rapes elderly women and cuddles with them afterwards.

*adds to list of shows I will never watch*

[number8]

By the way, it's a small and obvious detail to include, but I still smile at that establishing shot of New York at the beginning that has Stark Tower.

[Sycophant]

I have virtually no interest in watching this show, but I am intensely curious to see what comes of this show.

[Mara]

New, longer trailer:

http://beta.abc.go.com/shows/marvels-agents-of-shield/video/PL55301903/_m_VDKA0_yu0b4gna

It took me awhile to start EEPing. But I am EEPing now.

EEP.

[number8]

Well, all right.

[number8]

BTW, I'm 98% sure that the woman asking "What does SHIELD stand for" is Cobie Smulder's voice.

[Mara]

BTW, I'm 98% sure that the woman asking "What does SHIELD stand for" is Cobie Smulder's voice.

It is. I recognize.

[Kurosawa Fan]

I keep getting a "Media Not Found" message when I try to play the video at that link.

[Winston*]

I keep getting a "Media Not Found" message when I try to play the video at that link.

I get "It appears you are currently not in America. Get bent, foreigner". :sad:

[number8]

I rescue.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded& v=l1YewhQ1OOQ

[DavidSeven]

Definitely feels like a Whedon production. Funny without being too jokey. I laughed at least a few times during that.

[megladon8]

Is the plan to have little peeks of the main heroes? I thought I saw a little shot where Iron Man flew by, but it may have been a splice from one of the movies.

[[ETM]]

Coulson should have said "Never tell me the odds!"


Or... not.

[Grouchy]

Yeah, that's Luke Cage. Who else could it be?

[ledfloyd]

"It means someone really wanted our initials to spell out shield."

[Raiders]

YES.

[number8]

Yeah, that's Luke Cage. Who else could it be?

Luke Cage doesn't have superspeed, which the guy in the trailer does.

Most people are guessing Rage from the New Warriors, and I think that's the best guess so far.

[Dukefrukem]

Meh. It looks like a glorified CSI/Fringe show with obscure marvel characters that probably will do less than we even already suspect.

[Kurosawa Fan]

Meh. It looks like a glorified CSI/Fringe show with obscure marvel characters that probably will do less than we even already suspect.

THANK YOU. I feel like I've gone crazy here. This doesn't just look "meh," it looks flat out bad.

[ledfloyd]

I was leaning more towards Torchwood. I'm guardedly anticipating it. Part of me says, yay, 'cause Whedon. The other part says this is a huge Marvel property and all of Whedon's unique charms will likely be demoed and workshopped out of it.

[DavidSeven]

People like Fringe, though, don't they? It does have a procedural/monster-of-the-week type vibe that is off-putting. I haven't really been looking forward to this since its whole genesis felt so corporate. I'll probably wait to hear some good things before I decide to check it out. Still think the preview was pretty funny, though.

[Raiders]

I was leaning more towards Torchwood. I'm guardedly anticipating it. Part of me says, yay, 'cause Whedon. The other part says this is a huge Marvel property and all of Whedon's unique charms will likely be demoed and workshopped out of it.

I am positive he has a ton of creative freedom (he's one of the braintrust of the ongoing Marvel uber-franchise), not to mention this is TV and he is certainly going to have more leeway here than in The Avengers where even still he had quite a bit of his charm integrated into the film.

I thought the teaser looked great. Like David, it felt immediately like a Whedon enterprise and considering my love of everything he has done so far, my response can only be "YES."

[number8]

It is the same extranormal procedural set-up as X-Files, Fringe, and Torchwood. All of which are great shows, but I get the apprehension. Like David and Raiders said, trailer was witty and charming. The people involved have excellent track record. I love obscure D-list Marvel characters. I am so in Flynn had to get out.

[Watashi]

Whedon's only involved in the pilot, right? I thought his brother was the showrunner?

I dunno... it looks okay. A show that has this high of production values should be on cable.

[number8]

Whedon co-wrote and directed the pilot.

He's exec producer, but he'll be too busy with The Avengers 2 prep to be running a TV show. The showrunners are Jed Whedon, Maurissa Tanchareon and Jeffrey Bell. All solid writers who were just as responsible for how the Whedonverse turned out.

[Mara]

I wouldn't be surprised if he writes or co-writes some big episodes (season finale, etc.) Whedon loooooves television.

But I am very comfortable with Jed, Mo & Jeff, which is what I think we should call them. Talent and experience.

[number8]

Yeah. I was gonna say that I fully expect him to write and direct the season finale, but then I remembered that spring of 2014 is when Avengers 2 start shooting, so I dunno.

Unless they crosspolinate that shit somehow and shoot it in the same lot in order to have the Avengers cameo in the finale...

[[ETM]]

Yeah, I've been pretty satisfied with pretty much everything they did so far. I mean, it's pretty much Dollhouse and Dr. Horrible, but it was good.

[EyesWideOpen]

Luke Cage doesn't have superspeed, which the guy in the trailer does.

Most people are guessing Rage from the New Warriors, and I think that's the best guess so far.

They've confirmed it's not Luke Cage.

[number8]

;478851']Yeah, I've been pretty satisfied with pretty much everything they did so far. I mean, it's pretty much Dollhouse and Dr. Horrible, but it was good.

Whedon and Tancharoen didn't have showrunning experience, which is where Bell comes in.

[number8]

They've confirmed it's not Luke Cage.

Yeah. Here's the interview (http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/05/15/executive-producer-jeffrey-bell-talk-agents-of-shield-and-reveals-luke-cage-is-not-the-mystery-character) with Bell where he said it's not Cage. Apparently it might not even be a Marvel comic character.

Interesting interview, though. I like that he said it would be weird if there's a superhero every week, so the show is not necessarily a "Fringe with superheroes" show.

[Acapelli]

Yeah, that's Luke Cage. Who else could it be?
i really hope it isn't

edit: i should read full threads

[slqrick]

I guess it's a good thing it's a new character. If he becomes a fan fav, they'll add him to Marvel canon anyway.

[number8]

Nicholas Brendon said at the Albuquerque Comic Expo that J. August Richards narrowly beat him for the mystery character in the pilot.

So... Take that, people who were making guesses with black characters just because Richards is black, heh.

[number8]

Bear McCreary announced as the composer.

[[ETM]]

Bear McCreary announced as the composer.

With a full symphonic orchestra for every episode, no less. Nerdwana. :pritch:

[number8]

Heh.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLDWWbqpl9U

[Mara]

I'm going to watch the hell out of this show.

And Coulson is totally going to be the guy I'm in love with.

[MadMan]

I was almost reminded of Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman. That show was good until it jumped the shark. I'm a little optimistic about this one despite the merely okay trailer.

[number8]

http://insidetv.ew.com/2013/09/24/joss-whedon-interview/

Very personal interview with Whedon in prep for tonight. This is the first time I've ever seen him talk about liking to smoke weed.